Africa’s Sovereignty Over Food

(Increasing restrictions on use, lack of support for these activities and even their criminalization makes production conditions more challenging for all smallholder farmers)

[consortiumnews.com]

This is pretty much the case in all areas we've managed to spread our trade agreements to and colonized, Mexico and Latin America, South America especially. Devastating small farming communities as corporate farming take hold in their areas, and price manipulation that ultimately effects both their small farming communities and our farmers. Which is why we spend billions each year on farm subsidies to keep some of our farmers from collapsing. Then we are also spending billions each year around the world in aid to those countries for the damage this causes to their societies. Essentially the cost to quell uprisings from disgruntled citizens who might want to fight back against the system being forced on them. A lot of this aid money being lost in their corrupt governments though to. Our interference in these areas for profit cost us more than it initially would if we simply created a partnership.